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...turned around, bent over the table and ate like an animal. Although the rice I managed to eat each day did make me feel stronger, I began having difficulty walking. For some reason, the handcuffs were affecting my feet. Like my hands, they felt hot and painful. I staggered about, for my feet could not bear even the reduced weight of my emaciated body. The stains of blood and pus on the quilt became larger and more numerous as the handcuffs cut through more skin on my wrists. Either the weather suddenly got a lot warmer or I was feverish...
...globe are often torn between the desire to stand back and observe or to jump in and help. After three months reporting on the fall of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, National Public Radio's Kandahar correspondent, Sarah Chayes, had had enough of watching the broken country stagger to its feet and decided to lend a hand. Donning the turban and long tunic of Kandahari men (the better to escape attention), she plunged into a new life helping the people of her adopted home. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban is her riveting story...
...humans, we can merely sense the existence of a higher truth, a greater coherence than ourselves, but we cannot see it face to face. That is either funny or sad, and humans stagger from one option to the other. Neither beasts nor angels, we live in twilight, and we are unsure whether it is a prelude to morning or a prelude to night...
...Pelican’s” exposition, Shafrin also brings a much-needed levity to the show, with frequent paranoid references to the power of “the mafia.” He adds small touches to the role, like a drunk’s stagger or an abused child’s shiver, that make Frederick’s character fully-fleshed.Dorin (an HRDC veteran who produced last semester’s “The Alchemist”) does a fantastic job of mediating these performances and evoking a mood that is dark and Gothic, yet not totally...
...demanding existence, no doubt—but I would argue that the chances of a great payoff from the impending Harvard degree are much greater than any potential payoff of playing college sports at a “big-time” Division I school. While graduation rates stagger at many well-recognized D-I colleges—in part at the hands of student-athletes who won’t go on to play professionally—the student-athlete at Harvard is almost guaranteed to earn a degree. After all, Harvard’s graduation rate stands...